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Dennis Quaid's affable yet authoritative presidential performance leads a blatantly worshipful biopic.
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'Dead Boy Detectives’

This 'Sandman' spinoff adapts Neil Gaiman's comic as a zany teen procedural.

‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’

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